CHAD JASNOCH
Production Manager
CHAD JASNOCH
Production Manager
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1997
Don’t let Chad’s title fool you — he does much more than oversee the production of bats. For over a quarter century he’s been taking the craziest concepts the R&D team comes up with — including those from wild man founder Ray DeMarini — and making them a reality.
Sometimes those ideas (like ground up rubber balls in the bats) get shelved after Chad builds it and they test it in house. Other times an idea like the two-piece concept can change the game forever.
By continuing to keep R&D and production in one building, this lets DeMarini get new tech quicker to market than any other brand. It also fosters that original passion to innovate and try anything amongst everyone at the company.
Chad has taken that nimbleness of US production into revolutionizing customized bats as well — beyond graphics and into the end cap and knobs. Still innovating, still changing the game for the better every day.
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1997
Don’t let Chad’s title fool you — he does much more than oversee the production of bats. For over a quarter century he’s been taking the craziest concepts the R&D team comes up with — including those from wild man founder Ray DeMarini — and making them a reality.
Sometimes those ideas (like ground up rubber balls in the bats) get shelved after Chad builds it and they test it in house. Other times an idea like the two-piece concept can change the game forever.
By continuing to keep R&D and production in one building, this lets DeMarini get new tech quicker to market than any other brand. It also fosters that original passion to innovate and try anything amongst everyone at the company.
Chad has taken that nimbleness of US production into revolutionizing customized bats as well — beyond graphics and into the end cap and knobs. Still innovating, still changing the game for the better every day.
NATE BALDWIN
Factory Manager
NATE BALDWIN
Factory Manager
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1995
Being one of the first ten employees at DeMarini, Nate has seen it all. Nearly every technology breakthrough has been tasked to him to get in the hands of ballplayers all across the country.
By being the only bat company in the world designed and built in the US, Nate can give the R&D team production feedback immediately, face to face. This constant feedback creates better inline bats, and allows the D-Lab to experiment with technology because of the close proximity with the factory team.
Some of those crazier D-Lab experiments included creating a pressurized bat (that you could imagine wasn’t so safe if it broke) to the development of the first two-piece bats, allowing composite materials and aluminum to merge and transition DeMarini from a slowpitch bat maker onto the leading edge of the baseball world.
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1995
Being one of the first ten employees at DeMarini, Nate has seen it all. Nearly every technology breakthrough has been tasked to him to get in the hands of ballplayers all across the country.
By being the only bat company in the world designed and built in the US, Nate can give the R&D team production feedback immediately, face to face. This constant feedback creates better inline bats, and allows the D-Lab to experiment with technology because of the close proximity with the factory team.
Some of those crazier D-Lab experiments included creating a pressurized bat (that you could imagine wasn’t so safe if it broke) to the development of the first two-piece bats, allowing composite materials and aluminum to merge and transition DeMarini from a slowpitch bat maker onto the leading edge of the baseball world.
JERRY GARNETT (“GARNETTI” “JG”)
Senior Manager, Slowpitch
JERRY GARNETT (“GARNETTI” “JG”)
Senior Manager, Slowpitch
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1990
Jerry Garnett was a physically gifted athlete who caught founder Ray DeMarini’s eye on the slowpitch circuit way back in the 80s. Ray immediately took Jerry under his wing, mentoring him to not only become a great hitter, but also developed a passion for performance with his budding bat brand. Ray’s investment in Jerry paid off and paved the way for thousands of players to experience just how damn fun it is to hit the long ball.
Jerry was and has always been DeMarini’s first and foremost connection to players. He’s in constant contact with players all over the country, getting player-first insight on what they want at the plate. Jerry then brings that intel back to the factory where DeMarini develops ways to bring that performance to the field like no other brand can match.
It’s innovation that’s at the core of D-Lab, starting with the DoubleWall technology that revolutionized slowpitch, and is what Jerry credits as to why DeMarini is still here to this day. That passion to innovate still burns brightly — the drive to be that renegade bat brand that never stops shaking the game to its core — and is why after all these years he still comes fired up to work each and every day.
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1990
Jerry Garnett was a physically gifted athlete who caught founder Ray DeMarini’s eye on the slowpitch circuit way back in the 80s. Ray immediately took Jerry under his wing, mentoring him to not only become a great hitter, but also developed a passion for performance with his budding bat brand. Ray’s investment in Jerry paid off and paved the way for thousands of players to experience just how damn fun it is to hit the long ball.
Jerry was and has always been DeMarini’s first and foremost connection to players. He’s in constant contact with players all over the country, getting player-first insight on what they want at the plate. Jerry then brings that intel back to the factory where DeMarini develops ways to bring that performance to the field like no other brand can match.
It’s innovation that’s at the core of D-Lab, starting with the DoubleWall technology that revolutionized slowpitch, and is what Jerry credits as to why DeMarini is still here to this day. That passion to innovate still burns brightly — the drive to be that renegade bat brand that never stops shaking the game to its core — and is why after all these years he still comes fired up to work each and every day.
HODAD
Creative Director
HODAD
Creative Director
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1999
Without Hodad, DeMarini would not have the edge it has today. Brought in to create bat graphics at nearly the beginning of it all, Hodad got to know founder Ray DeMarini like no one else. Ray’s fierce, underdog mentality and his no-holds-barred approach to everything he did (especially hitting slowpitch bombs), was all the inspiration Hodad needed to create ground-breaking designs never before seen in softball or baseball.
He took graphical elements from extreme sports — Ray was a motocross fanatic, and Hodad was into snowboarding culture — and brought those fresh designs to a much more traditional, conservative sport. The look perfectly expressed the outsider attitude that went into DeMarini’s tenacious engineering of bats and bat tech.
As DeMarini has matured, the design process still creates innovation at many touch points, including building the robust customization tools for players to create for themselves at demarini.com/custom. Hodad has not only made his mark on the brand, but on the way multiple generations of players have expressed their style on the field.
AT DEMARINI SINCE 1999
Without Hodad, DeMarini would not have the edge it has today. Brought in to create bat graphics at nearly the beginning of it all, Hodad got to know founder Ray DeMarini like no one else. Ray’s fierce, underdog mentality and his no-holds-barred approach to everything he did (especially hitting slowpitch bombs), was all the inspiration Hodad needed to create ground-breaking designs never before seen in softball or baseball.
He took graphical elements from extreme sports — Ray was a motocross fanatic, and Hodad was into snowboarding culture — and brought those fresh designs to a much more traditional, conservative sport. The look perfectly expressed the outsider attitude that went into DeMarini’s tenacious engineering of bats and bat tech.
As DeMarini has matured, the design process still creates innovation at many touch points, including building the robust customization tools for players to create for themselves at demarini.com/custom. Hodad has not only made his mark on the brand, but on the way multiple generations of players have expressed their style on the field.Without Hodad, DeMarini would not have the edge it has today. Brought in to create bat graphics at nearly the beginning of it all, Hodad got to know founder Ray DeMarini like no one else. Ray’s fierce, underdog mentality and his no-holds-barred approach to everything he did (especially hitting slowpitch bombs), was all the inspiration Hodad needed to create ground-breaking designs never before seen in softball or baseball.
He took graphical elements from extreme sports — Ray was a motocross fanatic, and Hodad was into snowboarding culture — and brought those fresh designs to a much more traditional, conservative sport. The look perfectly expressed the outsider attitude that went into DeMarini’s tenacious engineering of bats and bat tech.
As DeMarini has matured, the design process still creates innovation at many touch points, including building the robust customization tools for players to create for themselves at demarini.com/custom. Hodad has not only made his mark on the brand, but on the way multiple generations of players have expressed their style on the field.
Don Loeffler
Engineering & Innovation Manager
The passion Ray had about his products...
such an animal, larger than life character.